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Namban Ships and Chinese Junks
High-resolution facsimiles
- Material
- printed, gold on washi paper
- Period of creation
- Tsuzuri Project Stage 13 2019–2020
- Recipient
- Kyushu National Museum（National Institutes for Cultural Heritage）
Original
- Artist
- Kano Takanobu
- Historical era
- Azuchi-Momoyama-Edo (17th century)
- Material
- ink, color, and gold on washi paper
- Medium
- Pair of six-fold screens
- Size
- Each screen H155.6 × W361.0 cm
- Collection
- Kyushu National Museum
Description
More than ninety sets of folding screens depicting scenes of commerce with the Portuguese and other “Southern Barbarians” (Namban) who visited Japan in the Momoyama period and the early Edo Period have been identified in Japan and abroad. This work is unusual among them because the left screen shows a port in China. It is thus of great value in that it is rooted in an earlier artistic tradition of depicting trade between Japan and China. Both screens portray the characters, the ships‘ cargos, and the other subject matter in great detail and variety, suggesting the hustle and bustle of a contemporary Japanese or Chinese port town. Although not signed or sealed, the painting can for stylistic reasons be attributed to Kano Takanobu (1571-1618), the second son of Kano Eitoku.
— Cited from Colbase
